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Category: Atheism
I would very much like your help in picking out a tee-shirt to wear around town. Let me tell you about the town, and you'll be able to make an appropriate suggestion....
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Category: Behavioral Biology
Do Individual Females Differ Intrinsically in Their Propensity to Engage in Extra-Pair Copulations?...
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:06 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Anthropology
Constructivism. Determinism. It is all a bunch of hooey. A recent paper published by PLoS (Culture Shapes How We Look at Faces) throws a sopping wet blanket on widely held deterministic models of human behavior. In addition, the work underscores the sometimes spooky cultural differences...
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:12 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Africa
To die honourably is second most desirable outcome in war. The most desirable outcome would be to manage to survive your honourable death.
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:04 AM • 45 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Falsehoods
I'd like to offer a way of thinking about the difference between what we call "civilization" and what some people call "primitive cultures" that will be more useful and less falsehood-prone
Posted by Greg Laden at 1:54 PM • 39 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Falsehoods
As the mother cougar approached the flood and all hope seemed to diminish, the narrator said "The mother cougar, driven by an instinct to save her species, searched desperately for any sign of the third kitten, who represented the next generation of cougars."
Posted by Greg Laden at 12:59 PM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Falsehoods
Today's falsehood is the assertion that the poor have more babies than the rich, or that the poor just have more babies to begin with. In comparison to ... whatever.
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:39 AM • 96 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Anthropology
Is the Natural World a valid source of guidance for our behavior, morals, ethics, and other more mundane areas of thought such as how to build an airplane and what to eat for breakfast?1 When it comes to airplanes, you'd better be a servant to...
Posted by Greg Laden at 12:50 PM • 55 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Anthropology
I've noticed that Scienceblogs.com has been running ads for hot Russian mail order brides. These ads are rather funny ...
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Category: Cat
Although the paper addresses Tanzanian lions, this is a photograph of a Namibian lion Starting some years ago, we began to hear about revisions of the standard models of lion behavioral biology coming out of Craig Packer's research in the Serengeti. One of the...
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